A script for adding Tags based on search result

Question

Hello all fellow faithfuls of InDesign!
I am looking at a challenge with my very basic (near to none) experience of scripting, that goes like this:
I need a script that could search through my story/selection and look for patterns (such as four digits in a row, basic RegEx stuff) and add a specific Tag-element with some specific attributes and given values that would be taken from the found pattern.
EXAMPLE: (Searching the text below)
Product 7352     price 23,60
Now the script would find: 7352 and tag it [7352] and give it attributes like RecordID = 7352 and Field = PRODUCTNR
For the price it would find the 23,60 and give it the same RecordID = 7352 and Field = PRICE.
How would I approach something like this?

Answer 1

Hi AshishK15,
Base on your code, I think the exception is threw in the code of Selection.Paragraphs(i).Range.Select.
For your code, you are getting the all paragraphs of the document (iParCount), however you are using the Selection object to get all paragraphs, which is incorrect unless you select the whole document content.
So, please modify the Selection to ActiveDocument.
For i = 1 To iParCount
ActiveDocument.Paragraphs(i).Range.Select
If ActiveDocument.Paragraphs(i).Range.ListParagraphs.Count = 1 Then
MsgBox ActiveDocument.Paragraphs(i).Range.ListFormat.ListLevelNumber
MsgBox ActiveDocument.Paragraphs(i).OutlineLevel
End If
Next
Regards
Starain
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